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Tweak says, "Cry, little sister."

Gia Riddell (neverfitin) wrote in watchers_rp,
@ 2017-05-25 01:11:00

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#day 007/07 may, daphina, gia

Who: Daphina and Gia
When: Afternoon
Where: Elkwood Castle

Libraries were pretty much the same no matter what part of the Realm one was in, as Gia had learned some time ago. The only thing that really changed was the size. The library in the palace at Kingswood was one that she had become very familiar with during her time at court. She had come there to read more often than not, but sometimes she had spent time there with the other young women she befriended. They would look at books of poetry or out the windows to sigh at the sight of young men walking wherever they were going, while Gia more often than not looked at them. They were fond memories, brought back by the scent of the library when she walked in and set herself up at a table, humming to herself as she did her best to keep all memories of last night at bay. Ilario had asked her at breakfast that morning and she had been forced to say that it had been an enjoyable meal, but for the way Rune had stared at her like she was on a plate. That had set him off and it had only been the timely intervention of her sister-in-law that had given her the window she needed to slip away before she was netted into a repeat performance.

It was just embarrassing to have someone stare at you like that when you knew they weren't getting anything out of it.

Gia meant to finish her project for Eileen, she really did, but it was turning out to be troublesome to focus on something that didn't want to work when she was surrounded by so many fond memories. The sand came together just as she wished, but everything else wasn't working like it had in her vision. Gia hated projects like that. They went from perfect in her mind to flawed in reality, and she ended up giving up on them. Her rooms back in Avalon were littered with such things -- the servants forbidden to do anything with them -- and it looked as though her room here was going to be the same way before the year was up. "This is not cooperating," Gia sighed, pushing herself back from the table. She turned her head, spotting another woman who had wandered into the same space. "Can you believe the absolute audacity of some ideas? To think that they exist in our minds only to utterly refuse to come out of them. You would think they had lives of their own."

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inmyelements
2017-05-31 11:34 pm UTC (link)

Daphina, a woman who believed that one should do whatever one could get away with within reason, could not say she felt any form of shame for having answered the question to begin with. It had seemed like the most normal thing in the world, though there were those in court who would consider it quite the opposite, and now she found she could not draw her attention away from Gia’s reaction. Though for reasons unknown to herself she wriggled the toes of one foot when the comments about soles was confirmed. Still, since she had -- at some point -- at least considered turning that question around… the subject was on her mind and it was most distracting. Proper or not, she needed to remember to tell Gia how much of a distraction she could be in a library.

The finger on her lip gave Daphina a slight mental start -- enough for her to more or less do as she was being told and release it. The effect of suddenly letting that lower lip go resulted in something of a jutting pout for a moment, and if asked she would forever deny that it was potentially deliberate. Because it was not. “I was not biting hard,” she defended, not particularly knowing why she had opened that line of discussion while also weighing up the rest of what Gia had said. She could think of only one real way to pamper lips when cosmetics were absent, and for all of a moment Daphina’s mouth curled up at one corner in a manner that made her seem inexplicably triumphant where it marked Gia’s amusement. Without daring to put too much thought into the matter, the blonde leaned over and placed a soft kiss on lips she half-worried might run away with the woman they belonged to. Wasn’t that how it usually worked at court? Though her now-free hand seemed to have touched a finger to Gia jawline, and it did not seem like she was fleeing in horror.

“Forgive me; that was horribly forward and I am a shameless opportunist.” While having not technically moved, Daphina had… stopped. Because… well, she could not explain why besides the voice of self-criticism playing in her mind, informing her she could have burned the library down and she would never have noticed. Which was likely true. Unless Gia now slapped her for her behaviour, she did not care -- if she was going to be completely honest she had wanted to do that since she laid eyes on her.

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